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EU Open Data Portal

The EU Open Data Portal (data.europa.eu) is the official portal for European Union open data, operated by the Publications Office of the European Union. It provides SPARQL and REST APIs for accessing statistical datasets, legislative documents, and institutional data from EU institutions under open licenses.

EU Open Data Portal publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalogs API, Datasets API, Distributions API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Government, Open Data, SPARQL, EU, and Regulatory.

The EU Open Data Portal catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

EU Open Data Portal’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

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38.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
5 APIs
GovernmentOpen DataSPARQLEURegulatoryLinked Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 38.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

EU Open Data Portal SPARQL API

The EU Open Data Portal SPARQL endpoint provides structured queries against linked open data from European Union institutions. Based on OpenLink Virtuoso, the endpoint enables q...

EU Open Data Portal Catalogs API

Federated data catalogs and publishers

EU Open Data Portal Datasets API

Search and retrieve EU open datasets

EU Open Data Portal Distributions API

Access dataset distributions and download links

EU Open Data Portal Vocabularies API

Controlled vocabularies for DCAT-AP metadata

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

EU Open Data Portal Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Eu Open Data Portal Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Eu Open Data Portal Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Eu Open Data Portal Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Eu Open Data Portal Context

6 classes · 27 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

EU Open Data Portal API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

EU Open Data Portal Dataset (DCAT-AP)

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Eu Open Data Portal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Eu Open Data Portal Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: eu-open-data-portal
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eu-open-data-portal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: eu-open-data-portal:eu-open-data-portal-sparql-api
  name: EU Open Data Portal SPARQL API
  tags:
  - EU
  - Government
  - Linked Data
  - Open Data
  - Regulatory
  - SPARQL
  image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eu-open-data-portal/refs/heads/main/image.png
  humanURL: https://data.europa.eu/
  baseURL: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  properties:
  - url: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
    type: Reference
  description: The EU Open Data Portal SPARQL endpoint provides structured queries against linked open data from European
    Union institutions. Based on OpenLink Virtuoso, the endpoint enables querying of RDF datasets using SPARQL with output
    in HTML, XML, JSON, Turtle, CSV, TSV, and other formats.
- aid: eu-open-data-portal:eu-open-data-portal-catalogs-api
  name: EU Open Data Portal Catalogs API
  description: Federated data catalogs and publishers
  humanURL: https://data.europa.eu/
  baseURL: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  tags:
  - Catalogs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/eu-open-data-portal-catalogs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Reference
    url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/
- aid: eu-open-data-portal:eu-open-data-portal-datasets-api
  name: EU Open Data Portal Datasets API
  description: Search and retrieve EU open datasets
  humanURL: https://data.europa.eu/
  baseURL: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/eu-open-data-portal-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Reference
    url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/
- aid: eu-open-data-portal:eu-open-data-portal-distributions-api
  name: EU Open Data Portal Distributions API
  description: Access dataset distributions and download links
  humanURL: https://data.europa.eu/
  baseURL: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  tags:
  - Distributions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/eu-open-data-portal-distributions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Reference
    url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/
- aid: eu-open-data-portal:eu-open-data-portal-vocabularies-api
  name: EU Open Data Portal Vocabularies API
  description: Controlled vocabularies for DCAT-AP metadata
  humanURL: https://data.europa.eu/
  baseURL: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  tags:
  - Vocabularies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/eu-open-data-portal-vocabularies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Reference
    url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/eu-open-data-portal-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/eu-open-data-portal-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-europa-eu
- type: Blog
  url: https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news
name: EU Open Data Portal
description: The EU Open Data Portal (data.europa.eu) is the official portal for European Union open data, operated by the
  Publications Office of the European Union. It provides SPARQL and REST APIs for accessing statistical datasets, legislative
  documents, and institutional data from EU institutions under open licenses.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eu-open-data-portal/refs/heads/main/image.png
tags:
- Government
- Open Data
- SPARQL
- EU
- Regulatory
- Linked Data
properties:
- url: https://data.europa.eu/
  type: Portal
- url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://data.europa.eu/sparql
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://data.europa.eu/en/legal-notice
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://data.europa.eu/en/legal-notice
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://data.europa.eu/
  type: Website
- url: openapi/eu-open-data-portal-search-openapi.yml
  type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/eu-open-data-portal-dataset-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: json-ld/eu-open-data-portal-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLDContext
maintainer:
  name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
modified: '2026-04-28'
integrations:
- name: EU Sanctions Tracker
- name: EU Twinnings